Rotenberry: Upshaw's story should be 'about her life'

6:35 PM,
Mar. 25, 2013

Written by

Therese Apel
tapel@jackson.gannett.com

Clint Rotenberry said Dist. 95 Rep. Jessica Upshaw had been fighting a battle with depression for some time prior to her suicide on Sunday.

Upshaw, 53, of Diamondhead, died around 1 p.m. Sunday at Rotenberry's house from what police have said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"Today is a culmination of many years of depression that she fought with all that was in her," he said. "When she took on an issue in the legislature, it was everything she had. She gave it 110 percent. She approached her depression with that same vigor every day, doing those things she knew to do to counter that ...